I have a question for everyone...please give opinions!

do you HAVE to be really involved with drugs to be considered a hippy, or can you just live your life as one?!

 

not to be mean but that question doesn't really make sense. you don't decide "I'm going to become a hippy" and then sit down and figure out what stereotype to conform to in order to qualify.


My idea of a hippy is somebody who doesn't care about conforming to anything except his/her own conscience.

Which means you don't have to do anything except what feels right to you.

 

thats what i think to. and its just annoying because i'm not heavily into drugs but i live my life the way i want to, in a peace and loving state of mind and people criticize me and put me down because they say that my way of living is paradoxal.

 

The answer is no. The same as you don't have to be vegetarian or own a VW bus or listen to Hendrix etc....

 

Lol!
What's wrong with a paradox?
doesn't mean you're a hipocrite,It just means people don't understand you.
you're not living up to their preconceived notions.
which really bugs alot of people who like to put everything and everybody in a box.

 

wow...THANK.YOU.

i think im really gonna love these boards!

its great to be surrounded (in real life or online or however) around people who dont judge and dont care who you are.

 

Right On!

 

hippie is a mindset
not a steryotype
drugs are fun, too, though

 

Yes, you have to consume large amounts of heroin.

hope that this answers your question.

 

All Youzehz kidz are what U R, there iz only one hippy.

 

Piss off.

 

No,you Can Just Live Life Like Them

 

Never done drugs, barely drink enough to consider it drinking. Don't have dreads in my hair, I shave my legs and underarms and I drive a 2001 Chevy Cavalier. I consider myself a "hippie", if I must put myself into that box. I just love existance and enjoy myself. That's all there is to it.

Bright Blessings!
Aphrodite Pretty

 

creepy ****

 

AMEN!! if you have to ask what you have to do to be a hippy, your just not seein the big picture, which is do what you think is right, think for yourself and don't worry about anyone else.........geez

 

To tell the truth..Most all our Leaders in the Movement had surcome to the negitive forces of hard durgs, young girls/boys and EGOs bigger then John Holms Prop.

It was a sad time for the peace freeks.

Emmitt Grogon> Diggers Leader OD on Heroin that he ripped off from his pardner.
Timothy Leary> Got lost and couldn't find his way home.
Janis Joplin> OD
Jim Morrison> OD
Jimi Hendrix> OD

The list goes on.

Taking hard drugs does not classify you as a Hippie. It classifys you as a junkie.

Being a Hippie is a state of conciouseness. It's seeing things with an open mind. It's being part of the natural flow of the universe. Letting go of the material things that bind us and sluffing off the restraints that keep us from growing.

We find these things within. That's where our search begins. When we know ourselves from a whole place of being we become what we strive for. When we let go of EGO and humble ourselves to the greater good, then we become part of the giving and are set free in our way of thinking.

One does not need drugs to reach this plane of existance. We need clear thinking to make the world a better place.
That's why the Movement mellowed and moved to the country. The drugs got in the way. Too many people on too many different trips.

I believe that if we of the 60's had stayed clear of the 'man made drugs' and stuck with the naturals we (as a whole) would have progressed further then we did.

The drugs that were available to us in the 60s were basicaly pharm. drugs. They were pure.
LSD was the drug of choice by many of the Hippie, along with MJ, Peyote and Shrooms. It was more on the lines of learning and finding new paths of enlightenment. To know ones self and their purpose. To become one with the universe and part of all things that exsists.

That is no longer the case with the drugs of the 'right now'. These drugs distroy the brain cells in a most horriffic way. It scares me to death. I dont know about your area, but here the 'ICE' situation is out of control. It's making zombies out of our youth.

They call it meth, but it has no methamphenimines (sp) in it. It is made with Amonia and Draino. It attacks the same reigons of the brain as does Alshimers and the brain turns to crusty dust.

Sticking to nature will keep you from harm. In moderation and for purpose, we should use these natural substances. As a tool, for learning and for growing in spirit. Natural substances open natural pathways of enlightenment.

Hard drugs just cloud the thinking process and cause confusion.

 

you know..... we have some very ignorant people who post on this forum. it makes me laugh

 

You know Mary, you're right.
The meth that everyone is doing now isn't meth.
Most of it's made of kittie liter and draino.
Real meth is a lot less harmful, actually.

 

That is very well put. Amen sister!

 

Is it important to you to be considered a hippee?
And if so, who is it whose opinion is so important to you?